Inkers, keep your eye on the cursor

Inkers, keep your eye on the cursor

Today at the GBM forum (http://www.gottabemobile.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6756), I was given quite a compliment on a suggestion I made. It's a bit of advice I hand out every now and then so it's worth repeating here: Don't look at the pen tip; look at the cursor.

Whenever you're working on a screen with an active digitizer, that is, one that responds to a special pen, not pressure. there will always be some difference between the cursor position and the tip of the pen. The digitizer recognizes a component within the pen, not its tip. Thus, that difference, called parallax, is unavoidable.

New tablet users often don't know that and knock themselves out recalibrating the screen trying to keep the tip and cursor perfectly aligned. The thing is, they don't have to be perfectly aligned. The pen controls the cursor, but the cursor is where the ink originates. That's where the ink flows. That's what to watch. Want proof this works? You're looking at it.
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